Eliot Spitzer Rejected from Harvard Club

The New York Times brings word that Eliot Spitzer, Princeton ’81, Harvard Law School ’84, deposed New York governor, and star of CNN’s Parker/Spitzer, was denied membership to the New York Harvard Club. Sewell Chan (himself a Harvard man) and Nicholas Confessore (Princeton) report: “This year, the Midtown club turned down Mr. Spitzer’s application for membership—a rare snub by the club—because officials there did not want to be associated with Mr. Spitzer and the prostitution scandal that forced him from the governorship of New York in 2008, according to a person told of the decision by Harvard officials.” A spokeswoman for Spitzer said the decision to bar the former Slate columnist from joining the club—and accessing the four international-level squash courts therein— was “disappointing.” As we know from popular culture, whenever a socially troubled gentleman is prohibited from joining one of Harvard’s clubs, he will go on to seek spiritual fulfillment by creating a world-altering device or product guaranteed to net him billions.What great things can we expect from Eliot Spitzer? Maybe he will engineer tap-proof phone lines, or design a line of very sexy socks. Perhaps, though, what would make the most sense would be if Spitzer invented a time machine. The Harvard Club would surely regret rejecting the guy who invented a time machine, or, depending on what dimension this is, it would surely regret rejecting the guy who definitely did not make liberal use of prostitutes.